Annoying television adverts...

[Ashley Hill]

Is this the Jürgen Klopp one? Can't imagine he'd be bothered about saving £60 on his hotel room tbh.

I dont know whos in the advert but one male appears to have too many teeth.

 

[cockneyviking]

Slimfast advert with Big Nastie. Has to be the worst advert ever.

 

[Masbroughlad]

Some adverts are just overplayed. I used to love the PetPlan, sad music, dog with poorly leg ad. Now I just see a millionaire vet (dog and owner still cute though).

 

[Ostrich]

Some adverts are just overplayed ......

The Elder Live-In Care one.
Walking the dog at 10, and at 3, Jeremy's coming for tea. Calls for a sly whiskey.

Being repeated virtually every commercial break on daytime Drama at the moment .....

 

[JD2168]

The Elder Live-In Care one.
Walking the dog at 10, and at 3, Jeremy's coming for tea. Calls for a sly whiskey.

Being repeated virtually every commercial break on daytime Drama at the moment .....

The same with funeral plans on some channels & as usual in January Holidays.

 

[Cambus731]

So many at the moment. The M&Ms one. The one with the mouths in the forehead.
The one with the bank robbery (think that’s for the AA)
And particularly the Dancing cows. Whoever came up with that one should be sentenced to five years living in Stevenage.

 

[Leyland Bus]

Recently I've been rewatching the (originally) Granada series "Cracker" on ITVX... For those who've never watched it (do, as it's set in Manchester during the early to mid 90s and it is gricey as hell!) the main character, Fitz, played by Robbie Coltrane, is a gambling addict... and every advert during and in between are for...


Gambling companies..!!! Even the missus couldn't get her head around the sheer irony of it all..!

 

[IanD]

There's one with talking towels in a hotel room. Make me retch just hearing it.

 

[Ashley Hill]

So many bingo adverts. Alien Bingo,Lucky Cow Bingo etc. One wonders if it’s the same company flogging different brands?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I think it is the Polestar car advert that has a woman speaking in frightened tones about seeing such a car but being confused by the possibility that she might have seen some alien craft.

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So many bingo adverts. Alien Bingo,Lucky Cow Bingo etc. One wonders if it’s the same company flogging different brands?

With the matter of protecting the viewing public from items that cause addiction, the Governments over a time period eventually stopped TV advertising for tobacco-based products. but in the case of the now numerous bingo and casino TV adverts that also are aimed at creating addiction to the offered products, no such moves appear to have been made.

I have said before that these companies are so brazen that they will actually feature adverts such as the bingo advert that has, as an example, a woman (a funeral planner) blithely talking of her addiction as if was a normal part of life.

 

[dgl]

Those bingo sites do seem to be a bit dodgy. We go to the local bingo hall a few times a year and my sister is the only one that I think is still cash positive! Even with the fact we hardly go there my sister still gets loads of texts and flyers in the post from them so must be making a decent chunk of change to be able to afford that.

There's a few ads on YouTube that annoy me at the moment, one I think is for either booking or hotels dot com where they are showing off this boutique hotel and the voiceover is exclaiming it's virtues, whereas I'm thinking that the room can't be that clean with all the stuff in it as no cleaner is going to have that long to clean the room.
Also one for a "fancy" cleaning products company that immediately lost any chance of business by their claim they have a chemical/spray that works everywhere, I'm sorry that doesn't/can't exist, and when they show how to refill the bottles they put the chemical concentrate in first before filling them up with water, that is a massive no-no, you always add the water first due to the risk of splashback.

 

[John Webb]

I haven't noticed any comment before but I dislike the adverts (TV and radio) where they've edited out the natural pauses at the end of sentences so they can get as much into their allotted slot as possible. To me it puts me right off the product. Not only is it unnatural but counter-productive because, just as speakers need to pause for a breath at the end of a sentence, the listeners need a few moments to absorb what's just been said.

 

[Welly]

As I may have said before in this thread, I use the mute button every time the TV ads come on to avoid hearing the vile sounds of corporate propaganda.

 

[BingMan]

I haven't noticed any comment before but I dislike the adverts (TV and radio) where they've edited out the natural pauses at the end of sentences so they can get as much into their allotted slot as possible. To me it puts me right off the product. Not only is it unnatural but counter-productive because, just as speakers need to pause for a breath at the end of a sentence, the listeners need a few moments to absorb what's just been said.

Rather like the radio adds - Classical FM I am looking at you - for financial services where they finish by reading the "small print" really quickly

 

[High Dyke]

Plenty to unpack here. Watching sport on tv late into the night means an increase in gambling adverts, especially when watching the cricket. Five times in the space of an over gets rather tiresome.

 

[AM9]

Plenty to unpack here. Watching sport on tv late into the night means an increase in gambling adverts, especially when watching the cricket. Five times in the space of an over gets rather tiresome.

I think gambling advertising should be treated as cigarette ads were, I e. conducive to starting or perpetuating a corrosive addiction.

 

[Ashley Hill]

What is it with people in adverts standing with their arms folded trying to look hard? Even the Duracell bunny does it! Worse are adverts for TV reality shows or competition shows with low shots looking up at people with arms folded. Why has this phenomenon caught on? To illustrate my point here’s a publicly shot from Train Truckers showing four staff with their arms folded.

Not my photo.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

My grandson tells me that they have been trying to emulate that advert that shows a driverless car driving off a skyscraper onto a platform that the advert shows has attached cables from a helicopter, but the use of a model car being launched at speed up a ramp and to land on a platform attached by string with two boys holding a string in either hand. Unlike the advert, where the driverless car comes to a full stop when landing on the platform, that particular feature was never achieved by the boys.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

"Enjoy Yourself" TV advert song the TV for Ambassador Cruise Lines

Is that song the same one that Doris Day sang in the 1950s?

 

[Hadlow Road]

What is it with people in adverts standing with their arms folded trying to look hard? Even the Duracell bunny does it! Worse are adverts for TV reality shows or competition shows with low shots looking up at people with arms folded. Why has this phenomenon caught on? To illustrate my point here’s a publicly shot from Train Truckers showing four staff with their arms folded.
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Not my photo.

Perhaps it helps them to hold their stomachs in?

 

[Trackman]

Is that song the same one that Doris Day sang in the 1950s?

Probably, it's been covered a few times.
Last time by The Specials I think
It's full title - well, for the TV ad version is Enjoy Yourself (it's later than you think)

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

Why do they show trails for programmes in the ad breaks within the programmes themselves?

We haven't quite got to the situation where ad breaks follow immediately after the titles have run, and immediately before the credits roll.
I'm sure it's only a matter of time.
And the BBC is complicit by just showing its own endless corporate trails between its programmes to fill the time left for commercial adverts.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

We haven't quite got to the situation where ad breaks follow immediately after the titles have run, and immediately before the credits roll.
I'm sure it's only a matter of time.

We almost have; on several channels they no longer appear to show anything between the end of the adverts and the resumption of the programme it goes straight from an advert into a resumption, not even a sponsorship advert.

 

[dangie]

A real annoyance for me is when watching a documentary, the first minute after an ad-break consists of repeating snippets of what we’ve just been watching prior to the ad-break.

My memory may not be brilliant, but I can just about remember what I’ve been watching five minutes before. Of course it’s not done to jog your memory, but to pan a half hour programme out to best part of an hour.

 

[Brent Goose]

I’ve never full understood the Candy Crush story/adverts when watching films on ITVX which they apparently sponsor

 

[styles]

I've recently been irked by all the online bingo and online casino adverts.

Apart from finding gambling advertising generally distasteful, what gets me is most of these websites are just clones of each other with the same games on them.

When I was into matched betting, I found a site called Team Casino, which, unlike matched betting, doesn't guarantee a positive return, but using casino website offers gives you very good odds at making a profit.

I did most of the casino welcome offers and you realise after a while that these sites are exactly the same just with a different skin. Monopoly Casino is the same as Virgin Bet is the same as Rainbow Riches Casino etc.

So now when I see adverts for these slots and bingo websites it gets me that it's just a marketing trick leading people to think it's a sparkly new site when really it's no different. You'll get a new welcome bonus of course, but that's it.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I saw something unusual that I have never seen before in real life in a TV advert. A woman walking along with two large sized species of poultry, each of which was attached by a lead in the long neck area. They passed by a woman, someone to whom animal sizes was not her strong point who said "Look, two little ducks". If ducks the size of the ones in the advert are thought by her as being little, heaven knows how tall big ducks are to her way of thinking.

A recent news item brought to mind an advert for long-distance holidays in which there is a scene that shows the tail of a large whale that is diving a very short distance away in-between two kayaks with some of the holidaymakers watching and the news item I recalled was that of a kayaker in a much warmer sea area accidently being swallowed by a whale and fortunately disgorged, whereas anyone being accidentally trown into the very much colder sea temperatures in the area of the advert would suffer immediate body shock from the very cold sea water.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

That part of the 'Magnum' advert, for me at least, sounds like someone biting into a raw carrot. Wonder whether the soundtrack has indeed been 'sonically enhanced'?

The current Magnum advert where a cat is sat next to a woman and when the Magnum was bitten into, the cat's reaction is to leap vertically upwards. The son of one of my new neighbours who is a vet, noting the height that the cat moved, noting the size of the background storage united/shelving behind the woman and as the fact that the cat had reached an even higher level than the TV picture showed, said that what was vertically shown was impossible to occur in real life by a feline species from a dormant prostrate position.

 

[dangie]

Ice Cream adverts which the film is slowed down to show (usually beautiful young ladies) eating the ice cream in slow motion. Not really sure what message they’re trying to get across here

 

[Northumbriana]

The latest Amazon advert where the sulky teenager tries to skateboard on a beach is unintentionally hilarious. To me at least. He could have found a more solid surface nearby because even beaches require roads and pavements to access them.

By the way, has anyone else noticed the recent trend for advertisers to represent a 'typical' teenager by having them use a skateboard? Usually accompanied by headphones wrapped around their neck. In all of my 42 years of being I don't think I've ever actually seen someone skateboarding.